Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to practise a fraud or deceit by verbal means.

1552		G. Walker Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 29: He have learned to verse, and lay in the reason well favouredly, to make the cousin stoupe all the coggs in his buy.
1592		Greene Blacke Bookes Messenger 7: Straight I verst vpon him, and crossebit him for all the money in his purse.